Messenia.,Mothone
Julia Domna. Augusta 193-217 CE
Æ 22mm, 4,50g
Draped bust right /
Athena standing right, holding spear and patera; shield at side.
BMC 2; BCD Peloponnesos –; SNG Copenhagen 539
Mothone was a famed city in antiquity. It was front and center during the Second Messenianic War, when Pylos and Mothone were the last strongholds against Sparta. After the war it was given to residents of Nauplia.
During the Peloponnesian War, Athens attempted to take Mothone, but were repulsed by Sparta.
431 BCE
Athens attempts to take Mothone, but is repulsed by Brasidas.